00:04Good evening. Good evening and welcome to Historic Williamsburg.
00:09Tonight, as we watched our nation's lawmakers gather for a joint session of Congress,
00:16we did not hear the truth from our president. So let's speak plainly and honestly. Because
00:23since this president took office last year, his reckless trade policies have forced American
00:29families to pay more than $1,700 each in tariff costs. Small businesses have suffered, farmers
00:37have suffered, some losing entire markets. Everyday Americans are paying the price. And even though
00:45the Supreme Court struck these tariffs down four days ago, the damage to us, the American people,
00:51has already been done. Rural health clinics in Virginia and across the country are already
00:59closing their doors thanks to the so-called one big beautiful bill championed by the president
01:05and Republicans in Congress. And tonight the president celebrated this law, the one threatening
01:11rural hospitals, stripping health care for millions of Americans and driving up costs in energy and
01:18housing, all while cutting food programs for hungry kids. So I'll ask again, is the president
01:27working to make life more affordable for you and your family? We all know the answer is no. Law enforcement
01:37officers across the country know that it is a unique responsibility to do the serious work of investigating
01:44crimes, comforting victims and making arrests. It's about building trust. And that requires an abiding sense of duty and
01:54commitment to community. And yet, our president has sent poorly trained federal agents into our cities, where they have arrested
02:04and detained American citizens and people who aspire to be Americans. And they have done it without a warrant. They
02:13have ripped nursing
02:14mothers away from their babies. They have sent children, a little boy in a blue bunny hat, children to far
02:22off detention centers. And they have
02:25killed American citizens in our streets. And they have done it all with their faces masked from accountability. Our president
02:35told us
02:35tonight that we are safer. Because these agents arrest mothers and detain children. Think about that. Our broken immigration system
02:45is
02:46something to be fixed, not an excuse for unaccountable agents to terrorize our communities. But as the president spoke of
02:57his perceived successes
02:59tonight, he continues to cede economic power and technological strength to Russia, bow down to China, bow down to a
03:08Russian
03:08dictator, and make plans for war with Iran. Here's the truth. Over the last year, through doge, mass firings, and
03:18the appointment of
03:19deeply unserious people to our nation's most serious positions, our president has endangered the long and storied history of the
03:28United States.
03:29of America being a force for good. So I'll ask again, is the president working to keep Americans safe, both
03:39at home and abroad? We all know the answer is no. In his speech
03:45tonight, the president did what he always does. He lied, he scapegoated, and he distracted. And he offered no real
03:54solutions to our nation's pressing
03:56challenges. So many of which he is actively making worse. He tries to divide us, he tries to enrage us,
04:05to pit us against one another,
04:07neighbor against neighbor. And sometimes he succeeds. And so you have to ask, who benefits from his rhetoric, his policies,
04:17his actions, the short list of laws he's
04:19pushed through this Republican Congress, somebody must be benefiting. He's enriching himself, his family, his friends, the scale of the
04:30corruption is unprecedented. There's the cover up of the Epstein files, the crypto scams, cozying up to foreign princes for
04:39airplanes and
04:39billionaires for ballrooms, putting his name and face on buildings all over our nation's capital. This is not what our
04:49founders
04:49envisioned, not by a long shot.
04:55So I'll ask again, is the president working for you? We all know the answer is no. And Americans across
05:05the country are
05:06taking action. They are going to the ballot box to reject this chaos. With their votes, they are writing a
05:14new
05:14story, a more hopeful story. Those who are stepping up now to run will win in November. Because Americans, you
05:25at
05:25home, know you can demand more. And that we are working to lower costs. We are working to keep our
05:33communities and our country safe. And we are working for you.
05:40May God bless the United States of America.
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